Strengthening leverage of Astroinformatics in inter-disciplinary Science

TL;DR

The paper discusses how astroinformatics can enhance interdisciplinary science by leveraging data-driven methods, AI, and large-scale computing to manage and analyze vast astrophysical data streams.

Contribution

It highlights the importance of astroinformatics in enabling data-driven discovery and interdisciplinary collaboration through practical astrophysical use cases.

Findings

Data-driven solutions facilitate interdisciplinary research.

AI and HPC are crucial for managing astrophysical data.

Astrophysical use cases demonstrate effective astroinformatics applications.

Abstract

Most domains of science are experiencing a paradigm shift due to the advent of a new generation of instruments and detectors which produce data and data streams at an unprecedented rate. The scientific exploitation of these data, namely Data Driven Discovery, requires interoperability, massive and optimal use of Artificial Intelligence methods in all steps of the data acquisition, processing and analysis, the access to large and distributed computing HPC facilities, the implementation and access to large simulations and interdisciplinary skills that usually are not provided by standard academic curricula. Furthermore, to cope with this data deluge, most communities have leveraged solutions and tools originally developed by large corporations for purposes other than scientific research and accepted compromises to adapt them to their specific needs. Through the presentation of several astrophysical use cases, we show how the Data Driven based solutions could represent the optimal playground to achieve the multi-disciplinary methodological approach.